Kahanism

Kahanism (Hebrew: כהניות, lit. Priestliness) is a Religious Zionism according to Meir Kahane, who believed that Palestinians are eternal enemies of Israel and they must be expelled from Israel, Palestina, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria and Sinai so that Halachic State can be established.

Flag of Kach (Kahanism)

Israel banned Kach and the US Department of State designated it a Foreign Terrorist Entity (2004), though it was removed out of the blacklist of foreign terrorism due to insufficient evidence of group's ongoing activity. However, it remains a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity.

Oz•ma Yehudit, which has been called Kahanist or the Ideological descendant of Kach won 6 seats in the Election 2022 and now, a current member of K^enesset.

Also, the Temple Institute was founded by Israel Ariel, who ran #2 for the party Kach in the 80's as one of the main goals of Kahanism is destruction of Al-Aqsa: symbol of Palestinian nationalism in order to build a Third Jewish Temple.

The Parties above have been accused of Fascist-like Zionism.

History

Logo of the far-Right party "Judaean Strength"

The Kach party saw electoral success in 1984, winning 26,000 votes, equivalent to one seat. Early polls after the election predicted that Kach would be the third largest party, winning as many 12 seats in the next election. But in 1985, Kach was barred from participating in elections.

Some Pro-Kahanism groups such as Sicarii decided to violently manifest their goals. Kahane was assassinated by El Sayyed El Nossair, which split the Kach with Benjamin Wolf Kahane behind Kahane Chai at Kuffar Tapuach and Marzel behind it's descendant Oz•ma Yehudit ("Judaean Power"). Both were banned to elect in 1992, but declared illegal in 1994.

After the ban, Kahane Chai's leaders created an extraparliamentary advocacy group, "the Kahane Movement", which archived media content from Kahane online.

The next election where Kahanists received political representation happened in 2009 with Ben-Ari, who split from National Union after the election, forming Oz•ma Yehudit ("Judaean Power"). The Party Oz•ma Yehudit ("Judaean Power") failed to pass the electoral threshold in Israel's election 2013. Kahanism gained no legitimacy till 2019, where as a result of the Political Crisis, Likud tried to gain extra seats by an appeal to Kahanism by a deal with the House of Jude to have them run jointly with Otzma Yehudit as the as Union of Right-Wing Parties. The party received enough seats for the Oz•ma Yehudit ("Judaean Power") to be represented, but Ben Ari, who meant the 5th slot on the Union of Right-Wing Parties' list, was barred after the list was submitted. Then, Kahanism finally represented itself in 2021, when Ben-Gvir won a seat jointly with Religious Zionist Party. The Descendant of Kach Party won 6 seats in 2022 in "the most right-wing government in Israel".

Ideology

Kahanism is a Religious Zionism that denotes the controversial positions of Meir Kahane, who proposed that Israel must reinforce Halakha that Moses codified under which Christians / non-Jews have two options:

1) Remain Resident strangers with all rights except national.

2) Leave the Holy Country.

Kahanism's central claim is that vast majority of Syropalestinians will remain enemies and that a Greater Israel must be established in Israel, Palestina, Hashemite Kingdom-Jordan, Cyprus, Lebanon, the Security Zone, the Golan, Syria and the Sinai til' North Hejaz (Northwest Saudi Arabia).

According to Kahane, the term "Kahanism" or it's variants is used by people, who don't know Torah-centered Judaism to discredit his ideology, which claims to be of Torah.

His window Libby stated that "Kahane did not hate palestinians (Arab) - he just loved Jews" in an interview (2010).

Allegations of Fascism or Judaeo-Fascism.

Kahanism or Templar Movement has been controversially been described as a form of (new) fascism or Judaeo-Fascism by newspapers and orgs such as Haaretz, +972 Magazine and Institute For Middle-East Understanding. Scholar Ehud Sprinzak has described Kahanism as "quasi-fascism" due to its direct racist-like attitudes.

Kahane (and Yisrael Ariel?) denied these accusations and called his opponents, regardless of their kind "left", "fascist", "Nazi" or "Pro Jihad".

Criticism

Since 1985, the Knesset has outlawed Kahanist parties as Racialist and barred them from elections.

Notable Groups

Pro-Kahanism

Name	Country(s)	Description	Status
Kach	Palestine and Israel	Organized parties	Defunct
The Temple Institute	Palestine and Israel	Pro-Third Temple activist group	Active?
Lehava	Palestine and Israel	Activist org	Active
Oz•ma Yehudit (Oy)	Palestine and Israel	Political party	Active
Valor	Palestine and Israel	Political party	Active
HaTikvah	Palestine and Israel	Political party	Active
Jewish Defense League	America and Global	A Militant, far-Right org.	Active?
Masada2000	America, Brazil, Switzerland, Israel and Palestine (?)

Notable Kahanists

Baruch Goldstein

The Deadliest attack on palestinians occured when Baruch Goldstein:- supporter of Kach shot and killed 29 Syropalestinian Arabs and wounded 150 at Ibrahimi Mosque (Hebron) in 1994.

Goldstein was a doctor who grew in Brooklyn and was educated at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Baruch resettled in an interesting Jewish settlement of Hebron (Palestine) and was active for years. Goldstein viewed Kahane as a hero and was it's campaign manager when he ran for Kach party.

Goldstein was denounced "horrifyingly" by Orthopraxy Judaean activists and Israelis considered him an insane person. Yitzhak Rabin called Goldstein "denegerate marauder" and "shame on Zionism and embarrassment to Judaism". At the same time, Goldstein was praised by Third Templar movements and implied that "we at war with the palestinians" and "the palestinian people (Arab) who live here are a danger to us... they threaten the very existence of Jewish communities of West Bank (Palestine)". After this attack, Pro-Kach activists praised Goldstein's act, and in the ensuing political turmoil, America and Israel banned Kach. Like other Torah-centric settlers, Goldstein believes (rightly!) that the West Bank is the Biblical holy heartland of Israel and Jude.

Eden Natan-Zada

On August 4, 2005, Eden Natan-Zada, an IDF soldier "killed" 4 Arab Israelis and wounded others, when he fired a bus in Shafar Am (the Galilee or Northern District) and recently moved to the village Tapuach, hotbed of Temple-activism.

Rabbi Shalom Ber Wolpe ("Wolf")

Shalom Ber Wolpe is a notable Kahanist, who authored 40+ books. He associated himself with (far) Right-wing Nationalism and set up a party, I"sh and a campaign—SOS Israel—an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns, which perpetuates the idea that Halakha forbids the surrender of the Land of Israel, inclusive of the West Bank to the PA (palestinian authority).

Later, in 2008, he established an additional group, a firebrand opponent of palestinian statehood.

If Israel, inclusive of Netanyahu continues with disengagement, he threatened to establish a new State, Judaea. His words on Ehud Olmert implied that Ber Wolpe wanted to "hang him on Gallows" due to his cooperation moves with PA. [He] claimed that "terrible traitor, Ehud Olmert, who gives these Nazis weapons, who gives money, who frees their murderous terrorists, this man, such as Ariel Sharon, collaborates with Nazis (palestinians)" while speaking. During the Second war Lebanon, he told Kir•yat Gat weekly that, "Olmert has declared war against God and against His Torah", and that he should be brought to justice. He added that the war should continue "until the enemy (Islamic Jihadists) has been totally eradicated".

Michael Ben-Ari (Michael Ben-Ar-ya)

Ben-Ari is a notorious running for Oz•ma Yehudit (Oy) - split of National Union (El) and Land of Israel! Ours! (Ish) by Blessed Marzel and Wolf, both pro-State of Judaea. Though a notorious anti-Palestinianist, he tore down a copy of a New Testament and he claimed that it is an Anti-Judaean, murderous religious Bible, which should be thrown in History's garbage can. Ben-Ari (rightly!) claimed that Pope Benedict XVI's visit insults Holocaust survivors.

Evangelical support

James David Manning, chief Pastor of ATLAH World Missionary has endorsed it.